IPL season 2 Auctions: Pietersen and Flintoff Rule

Safin

The bidding for players is now ipen for IPL Season 2 and the starting takwaways have been nothing short of mind boggling.

Pietersen and Flintoff have now become the costliest players in the IPL. The previous highest bid was for Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni, who had been bid last year for $1.5 million.

Initial Results

Rajasthan Royals buy Australian bowler Shaun Tait for $375,000.
Mumbai Indians bid $950,000 for South African batsman Jean-Paul Duminy.
Chennai Super Kings bid a record price of $1.55 million for England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff.
Bangalore Royal Challengers bid $1.55 million for former England captain Kevin Pietersen.

Awesome sums for Flintoff and Kevin. I sure hope this changes the fortunes of the Challengers now

But i seriously doubt one player will change anything

More Results soon.

Safin

Owais Shah from England goes to Delhi for 275k$

Paul Collingwood from England to Delhi for 275k$

medpal

and those two players were bid high because they are only available for 3 weeks that will be low payment.

i am talking about KP and Flintoff.

Safin

How do you justify Duminy for that high a price. The only good series he has played is the recent one against Australia. Are we talking present form or pedigree here

Safin

Rajasthan buys JHenderson of South Africa for 650k$

Now justify that

and it was a hot bidding session

medpal

Twelve out of a possible 17 slots have been filled within an hour of the 2009 IPL auction in Goa. Here is a list of who has been bought by who so far (base price in brackets; all numbers in US$):

List A
Shaun Tait to Rajasthan Royals 375,000 (250,000)
JP Duminy to Mumbai Indians 950,000 (300,000)
Andrew Flintoff to Chennai Super Kings 1.55 million (950,000)
Kevin Pietersen to Bangalore Royal Challengers 1.55 million (1.35 million)

List B
Fidel Edwards to Deccan Chargers 150,000 (150,000)
Owais Shah to Delhi Daredevils 275,000 (150,000)
Paul Collingwood to Delhi 275,000 (250,000)

Stuart Clark, Brad Haddin and Chamara Kapugedara were unsold.

List C
Tyron Henderson to Rajasthan 650,000 (100,000)
Ravi Bopara to Kings XI Punjab 450,000 (150,000)
Thilan Thushara to Chennai 140,000 (125,000)
Jesse Ryder to Bangalore 160,000 (100,000)
Kyle Mills to Mumbai 150,000 (150,000).

Ashwell Prince, Phil Jaques, Andre Nel, Luke Wright and Nuwan Kulasekara were unsold.

source cricinfo.

medpal

List D
Dwayne Smith to Deccan Chargers 100,000 (100,000)

Samit Patel, Shakib-al-Hassan, Morne Van Wyk, Jerome Taylor, Stephen Smith, Ashley Noffke, Gulam Bodi, Mohammed Ashraful and Darren Powell were unsold.

Ashwell Prince, Phil Jaques, Andre Nel, Luke Wright and Nuwan Kulasekara were unsold.

List E
Tamim Iqbal, Jon Moss, Bryce McGain, James Franklin, Aiden Blizzard, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Michael Klinger, Kaushalya Weeraratne, Prasanna Jayawardene and Dominic Thornley were unsold.

While Bangladeshi Mashrafe Mortaza was sold for 600000 to KKR, what an idiotic buy it is. I am sure Preity and Ness were pulling legs of SRK led team there and they succeded there.

Now only two slots remaining.

Mumbai and Punjab have one slots to pick one more overseas player.

Safin

Mashrafe Mortaza of Bangladesh taken by KKR at 600K$

Intense battle between KKR And KingsX1

Most stupid bid ever. He is a good bowler and a decent pinch hitter but does not justify this price.

medpal

Kings XI Punjab asked for Jerome Taylor and they will get him at his base price of $150,000. Mumbai did not request for anyone. That brings us to the end of the player auction. It's been intense and manic.

thats an interesting move by mumbai indians. they may grab some one cheaper for a one year contract.

Ninja

I would have put my money on Luke wright and Phil Jaques. Both are hard hitting batsmen and were available are a cheaper price tag. The best buy clearly was collingwood.

Pieterson for $1.55 millions.

Looks like Mallya had boozed his way into the auctions